Al Pacino has ruined my day

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DM rang last night and told me she had watched a film starring Al Paseeno -that's how she pronounced his name. DM has done this before, and I told her it's not 'Al Paseeno, it's Al Pachino'. So I told her again last night it's Al fucking Pachino.

DM is all narky with me today because I corrected her speech. Well, I said, when you call him 'Al Paseeno' it makes my teeth itch; which is apparently not good enough defence for correcting her and highly bad manners.

She has other words which I don't correct, keybab is one example.

I ended up apologising!

eye-b'yoo-pro-fen

Stress on which syllable though squoosh?

the stress is equally distributed.

Ah, thank you. Now I know, my children won't need to start a Mumsnet thread about how I mangle it umpteen years from now.

My sister says Brufin (she's a nurse - is this an accepted pronunciation)? It's annoying

I say Eye-boo-PRO-fen (emphasis on penultimate syllable). This might annoy other people though

I'm sitting at my desk like a loon saying 'ibuprofen, ibuprofen, ibu.......'

Oh God! What about that bloke off the telly, think it is Steve something, who helps people not be fat any more, and he always talks about them eating
"Crisssssssss" instead of crisps.

I feel the soles of my feet itching.

Where in the world is kekkle and bokkle considered the norm?
No idea what the correct answer to that is, but my mum uses them when she's being not entirely serious. Chimbley as well. She grew up in East London and might well have borrowed them from her childhood, even though she has an RP accent or did, until 35 years in the US eroded it somewhat.

The American pronunciation of ibuprofen has a short U, skewing dangerously towards a Y.

Oh, that Nanny lady Jo-something-or other "That is not asseptable" AArrrgh

Where in the world is kekkle and bokkle considered the norm?

It's a small town in the NW of England. They also call people cock and cocker. I can't help but chuckle when they say "Put kekkle on cock"

A lot are also fond of saying Nay instead of No.

FreeandHappy - agree Diarmuid Gavin's "foalage" annoys me too!

So much annoys me - I don't know how I manage to survive

Very good friend of mine ordered tar-zee-key with see-a-batta

Had to hide behind the menu for a bit!

Do Americans really say aluminum instead of aluminIum?
Do they spell it wrong too?

My long departed nan used to say "antibiollocks" ! instead of antibiotics!

Evans I used to be a nurse and we always referred to Ibuprofen as Brufen. I guess it was just a nursing short hand. Like Dicolofenac was at one point known as DF118 - before my time so when I heard a dr say it I had to ask a colleague what it meant. She told me and said Drs used to prescribe it like that as a short hand, probably where the brufen short hand comes from.

Yes to both, Owl

I used to work for an American company. Oh, my goodness, the grammatical and pronunciation errors. One of the high, top bosses used to say "irregardless" - a lot. Apparently, it is a word in the American dictionary "Webster's", but even that explanation indicates that it is a made-up word or colloquialism combining "regardless" and "irrespective" and advises the use of "regardless" instead. If you think about it logically and sensibly, "irregardless" negates the "regardless". It's a double negative, and they use it in the wrong context.

It's a small town in the NW of England.
See, I was wrong.

Yes, owl it's spelled and pronounced Aluminum. Not wrong, just different.

There was another daytime TV presenter - blonde female, can't remember her name off the top of my head. It was a car-booty/clear-out-your-clutter-type programme. She used to pronounce jewellery as joolery. Oh! My! Goodness! I used to throw things at the screen. Thank goodness, she doesn't seem to be on the telly any longer!

I pronounce jewellery as joolery.

But I have never been a daytime TV presenter!

How do you pronounce it?

My clever dh used to say sastumas instead of satsumas. I thought he was just trying to be cute til I realised one day that he actually thought that's what they were called.
How I laughed.

Jew-ell-ree - obviously!

My dm gets people's names wrong and then gets hissy with me if I correct her (not just diminutive versions which, I will avoid discussing here) So some relatively easy to understand mistakes could be:
Nicole becomes Nicola
Kathleen becomes Kathryn

But cannot see that Nicole or Kathleen might have an issue with that.

Then there's the actual mispronouncing of names even vaguely foreign. For example, Eva (pronounced Ava) would be eeva. Or Michele (male, Italian) she would just anglicise.

Makes me want to scream!!

My DS still says zapsumas (and faJeetas) - he's 19

Brufen is - or was - a brand name, so it's just the same as people saying 'hoover' instead of 'vacuum cleaner'.